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Hello and welcome everyone on this February 23rd.
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The cold continues. That's no real surprise for
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anyone in most of the country. I'm definitely tired of it.
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But, you know, I just try to wait it out and embrace it.
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But I looked ahead. We'll be, we'll be kind of
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bundled up again tomorrow as we're live at Magic Kingdom.
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So it's just, it's become the norm, Lawrence, it's the norm.
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Did all the snow melt from your backyard?
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So I went out this morning, I had to do physical therapy and I
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had a dentist appointment today. And so we had to venture out, we
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being Finley and myself, because Finley had no school today and
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they've already announced she has no school tomorrow either.
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So she is on three days now of no school.
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And yes, the snow has melted in my backyard and my streets, but
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there are a lot of lot of the county that I live in that are
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very rural. There are folks that are still
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on dirt roads in the county and so they have decided to cancel
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school for tomorrow. And Thursday's not looking good
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either because we're supposed to get another inch of snow
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tomorrow. So.
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Wow. It's spring.
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Break, I guess. Yeah, I guess.
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So I guess they're just not equipped for this kind of thing,
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huh? Yeah, yeah.
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It's just, you know, it's listen, when they talked about
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us getting 10 inches, Catherine and I were prepared.
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We knew we weren't going to see the school for a couple days.
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Both of us work from home. So we figured that would be the
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case. But we were in what's called a.
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So first of all, this was a bomb cyclone that we had.
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Have you have you heard that term yet?
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I don't know if you guys. Yeah, yeah, Massachusetts gets
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those now and then. It's a fun, fun term.
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Yeah, yeah, a bomb cyclone we had which has which is just
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snow. And so we were in one of those,
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but we were also in a dry pocket.
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So 20 minutes to my E, they were getting snow. 20 minutes to my
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W, they were getting snow. Us, we didn't get snow all day
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until probably, I don't know, 8:00 that night.
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So it was very, very interesting.
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A lot of the kids were disappointed, but you know,
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yeah, Hey, it's weather, right? It's it's like we said before we
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started it, it's like tech. You.
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You never know. You never know what the answer
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is. Unpredictable.
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Unpredictable. There's been times where I just
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gave my electronics a rest. You know, I had ATV one time I
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was about to throw out, Tried everything I could to fix it,
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wasn't working. I put it aside and about a week
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later when it was ready for the trash, I said let me just plug
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it in one more time. It worked.
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I have a water bottle. I have a water bottle that
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converts it, separates H2 from the O and has good health
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benefits, $80 bottle. It stopped working the other
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day. I pressed the button and it
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shocked me and it wasn't charging.
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But yeah, it was shocking me. So rather than throw it away
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right away, I put it aside, said the Tammy, we're going to give
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this a rest. A week later I looked over at it
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and I said let me try this, build it up.
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Works beautifully Electronics everybody.
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Give your electronics a rest sometimes before you throw them
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away. Yes, that's that's pro tip.
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So yeah, I, I can tell you from producing the live stream the
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other night and watching you guys out there and be very cold,
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you could, I mean, heck, they cancelled the second Starlight
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because it was so cold. A lot of the rides were not
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running because it was so cold that night.
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So yeah. You talking about Saturday?
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Yeah, yeah. You guys were out there and it's
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some cold weather. We thought we struck Goldman.
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We showed up park hopping on Saturday night and we're we step
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on the Main Street and I'm like, it literally looked like what
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Main Street looks like 20 minutes before the sweep.
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Like before they're ready to just push everyone out of the
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park. Like park's been closed an hour
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and we're heading into like the last 20 minutes or whatever
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before guests really have to go. So I was like, man, we can just
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step anywhere we want here on the curb and and watch
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Starlight. It's almost like a personal
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parade for us and and a few scattered guests.
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So just, and we were like, OK, let's kill a few minutes and we
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went into one of the stores and then sure, no, no sooner than
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when we entered the store, they made the announcement that
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Starlight was was cancelled. So do you think it was the cold
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or was it the wind? You know, it, it might be both
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because the wind, I'm certain, I, I'm certain had an effect on
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it. Because if you think about every
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one of those floats, with maybe the exception of, well, Coco,
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he's, he's pretty low. But think about the Blue Fairy
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and Moana and Peter and Wendy, they're up pretty high.
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So I think that it was more so the wind than the cold, but I
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think it was also the cold for the dancers and, and all of
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that. So you know, they did run it the
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first time, though from what I from what I heard, I didn't go
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back and look, but I think they did run it the first time.
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OK, yeah, I did hear that. Yeah, somebody had a comment I
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wanted to mention. Oh, need a room blog of the
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hotel. Which hotel?
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Shannon. Yeah, which one there?
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Shannon, what can we get for you?
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How can we help you today? I mean, I I'm.
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Busting somebody's room. Hey I need AI.
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Need a room blog? Purple Pleasure said Pro Tip 2
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Dash 3-26. I like that.
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Give your devices a rest. There you go, yes?
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So what brings us here today? Oh well, today, February 3rd, I
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thought we would do some park updates, right?
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Going into the the new year, we've had some rides closed,
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some rides that are getting ready to close and looking
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toward the future, right? And then all of a sudden, Disney
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decided to drop some news on us today.
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So we have plenty to cover about the future of the company.
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So yeah, I thought, I thought we would cover that.
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Sounds good. Let me also mention that I
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thought the Park Bros channel would be hitting monetization
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come the summer or so with my plan of going down there every
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six weeks about to do some live streams.
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We've actually already hit memberships and super chats as
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of Saturday. So I want to thank everybody
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that has watched and supported and liked and subscribed.
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So on our last weekend there, we hit 10,000 subscribers and now
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we've actually been given super chats and membership.
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So that was that was pretty cool.
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So thank you all for that support.
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Congratulations publicly, my friend.
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You earned it. Thank you.
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You're one of the hard workers in this community.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Yeah. So, oh, Speaking of which, while
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it's here in front of me, that's my button for being inducted
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into the Hall of Fame as #299. Oh, congratulations on that to
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the Pete Mcdevitt Disney YouTube Hall of Fame.
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Yeah, so glad that that you made it.
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And people might not know this, but I have 4 votes.
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I have strong, I have, I probably have more influence on
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who gets into that Hall of Fame than anybody because our channel
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officially has four members. So we get 4 votes.
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So I gave you 4. Votes.
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I got to get Finley into the Hall of Fame.
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Is that what you're saying? It's Finley and Catherine there
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and and Jay. Then I'll have 4 as well.
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Yes, yes, yes. You got to get them on park
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roads. Be like Park family.
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So let me ask you, what did you think when you heard the news
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today about Josh tomorrow taking over as CEO and that's going to
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be effective March 18th? Was that a surprise?
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Was it, did you think it was coming?
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Where? Where were you this morning?
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It's not a surprise to me at all.
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I didn't even flinch on that news.
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He's just been in the company for so long.
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I feel like that he's just been groomed for this and he's had
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some wider experience than I think some others, especially
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like JPAC, who really focused. He, he didn't really have park
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experience, I believe. Am I right?
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Am I correct on that? Eiger is well-rounded, you know,
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he knows how to manage networking and media as well as
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parks. And for this company to be
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successful and go forward with all of that, you need the next
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person to be at least close to that right now.
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So I can imagine he's been beside Iger for over a year.
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Like they, they, they probably knew this way before it started
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to surface as something that was going to turn into fact.
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You know, Josh was, he started out in financing and then he
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ended up in parks for quite some time.
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And he was probably learning the media side of things with Eiger
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recently and will continue to do so until he he takes over for
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good. So I'm very happy for Josh.
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He's a really great guy. You know, I were talking today,
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you know, very personable, very approachable and what an
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incredible memory. Unless I made that kind of
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impression on him, he remembered me every time.
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I think I ran into him three times.
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And we do have that Patriots connection.
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He's from Rhode Island, so you know, he likes to hear my
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opinions on what I think, you know, will happen throughout the
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season and stuff like that when we've, we've run it, run into
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each other. So really happy for him.
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It's really cool that I can say that I rubbed elbows with the
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CEO. I'll probably never see Josh
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again at this point, but it was nice knowing him and
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congratulations to him. I run into him.
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I didn't have an extensive conversation, but I did run into
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him twice in the parks, both times at Epcot.
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And again, just such a such a nice guy like it not only to to
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the guest, which you would think, OK, well, you know, he
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was in charge of the parks. He has to give that that face.
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OK, great. But I hear that the cast members
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like him as well. And I think that's a huge, you
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know, a feather in his cap because if both the guests like
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you and the cast members like you, you're doing a lot, right?
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Will there be things that happen in the parks that we don't
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approve of? As guests?
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Sure. As annual pass holders, Sure.
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But you have to look at the big picture, right?
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Not only is the the CEO, but there's a board behind him.
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And the Disney Company is a publicly traded company, the CE
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OS job. It's not to make Corey happy,
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It's not to make Lawrence happy. It's not to bring down the
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prices. It's not to give you more food
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in the restaurant. It's to make the company money
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for the stockholders. That is their job.
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The shareholders are their number one.
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Now you can get there by improving a lot of things and by
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improving the parks and experiences.
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And I think I might be wrong, but I think having someone like
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Josh that's been in the parks and leading the parks for as
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long as he has, I think that we are all going to be happy with
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the direction of the company. Now he's, you know, in charge of
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media and movies and television and all that as well come March
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18th. But the parks are his baby,
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right? And the parks make a lot of
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money as well. So it's not like they're going
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to be forgotten just because he's got to now focus on that
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other thing. I think that the other the other
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part to that is creating that position for Dana Walden as
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chief creative officer. I think that also helps because
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he can focus on the experiences and what we all get from the
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parks and what we all get from the movies and from all media.
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But she can also then focus on that creative part.
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You know, it's like we talked about with Bob Iger talking
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about we're going to put out less, but it's going to be
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better, right? And so and I think that that's
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happened. I mean, look at Zootopia to look
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at Inside out to, you know, a lot of the Avatar, you know, I
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mean, there's some some good movies coming out right now.
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And I'm wearing Kermit shirt tonight because in two hours and
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10 minutes as AD 23 gold member, I get to watch the new version
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of The Muppets. And if that show is as good as
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people are saying, you're going to see a couple seasons of that
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show. So if that's what's to come, I
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think we're in good shape as Disney fans.
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Yeah, that's well said. And you know, Iger did put his
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foot down about a year, year and a half ago, two years and said
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what you said, you know, less is going to be more.
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And I know that he private story.
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I know that he paid a visit over to Pixar and said these movies
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need to hit, you know, Moana to inside out to these have to hit.
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And so there's a lot of emphasis on those being successful.
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And that's just saying, you know, Japec was just wanted to
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pump it out, pump it out, pump it out.
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And we were losing quality with a lot of the content they were
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putting through. So I think yes, you know, Josh
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has a lot of experience with the parks and I think like you said,
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I think he will oversee that and he won't let things go astray.
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If Dana Walden is taking that over, I don't think that he'll
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let that go astray. I think he'll he'll still have
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his influence there so that things go the way he'd still
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like to see him if he was in charge of that.
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And like you said, his duties will be diversified.
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But I think that we're going to see a continuation of some
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pretty good success right now with the way the parks are
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going. And Josh knowing that, probably
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knowing that he was going to take this position.
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And I don't know how much responsibility he had with this,
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but it is with the parks, right? He just went ahead.
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Now people will say when Aceo is on his way out, he'll just
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spent, he'll just start spending a lot of money.
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But how much do you think Josh was responsible with agreeing
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and with the approval of cars, land and villains and the whole
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new area, tropical America, all this stuff coming up, this is
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going to be within his tenure. So he is still going to be
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overseeing this with great care. So how much do you think he had
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to do with with that as opposed to just Eiger?
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Yep, let's put stamps on all of this because this will be my
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legacy going out the door. I always get the feeling that
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with things in the parks, it's more it's coming from the head
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of the parks and they are giving the ideas to the CEO and the CEO
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says, OK, you know, what's this going to cost?
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How soon can this get done? What's going to be the effect,
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positive and negative in doing this change?
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So I think that whoever takes over as head of parks, which
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that has not been announced as far as I know, but I think, you
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know, between, I think Dana's Dana Walden is now going to have
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a lot of play in that as creative chief creative officer
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because she kind of will, you know, steer the the, the face of
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the company. You know what is how How?
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Creative or how dull is Disney will come down to her and Josh
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now and I really do believe that we're going to see somewhat of a
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renaissance. I'll I'll I'll say this.
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I also heard that there was a permit file today for the
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entryway to Hollywood Studios where you enter to park.
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OK, yes. So what what's that going to do?
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Is it going to modernize that? Is it it, you know, and I know
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people are going to start to think, oh, we're going to, if
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they modernize it, they're going to lose the the whole 50s field.
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They're going to change the entire part.
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No, I don't think so. But what if I just thought of
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this? What if, what if it's, look,
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we're getting the the Disney the magic of Disney animation back
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there in the animation courtyard, right?
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And it's supposed to harken back to California and that whole
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entryway there. What if the parking entrance is
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going to mirror that? What if that's what they're
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doing, right? I think that's going to give you
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a much better feel than the feel that we get now.
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So very early on, we don't know, you know, exactly what's going
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to happen there, but that has been filed.
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I think we're going to see a renaissance, I really do.
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Have we seen a an official photo of the artwork of this proposed
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entryway? No, there was some speculative
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speculative pieces put out there.
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OK, that's what I saw then, and I liked it.
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I did too. I did too.
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I actually looked at it quick, so I didn't really have a chance
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to confirm if it was real. So I, I, I did what I normally
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don't do. I took it as kind of mostly real
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when I saw it and said, OK, all right, if that's what they're
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going to do, I like that. But I guess it wasn't real.
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Stupid AI, no? You can't trust anything.
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You can't, you really, it's just going to get worse, everybody.
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So yeah, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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I love the entryway. It's great.
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But I don't know, unlike a lot of Disney fans, I don't know if
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you've noticed this about me, but I embrace change pretty
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well. Like, and it probably goes hand
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in hand with my personality. I get bored with things.
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And I'm not saying I'm ever bored with most of the things
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that go away, but I like change. I like change.
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I, I get bored in my life with certain things and like, move on
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to the next thing. Like it's great.
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And then I'm like, OK, I'm done with that today.
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I was all in last night when I went to bed, but now I'm on to
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something else that kind of goes with my personality.
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Like I'm, I'm OK if they want to change it, but at the same time,
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it needs to look nice. It needs to look cool.
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It can't be modernized, you know what I mean?
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Like Hollywood studios is Hollywood studios.
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Don't let it lose its character. Correct.
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We need that 50s feel like you can't now you get me going.
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So you cannot give us a modern entryway but still play old
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Hollywood music down Hollywood Blvd.
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It doesn't work. So I that and and here's the
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thing you talk about Hollywood Blvd. or Sunset, both of them
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echo at the whole park, except for, you know, Galaxy's Edge and
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and Toy Story Land. The whole park gives you that
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feel. So if you're going to get away
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from that, you have to redo the entire park.
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That ain't happening, folks. That's just not happening.
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No. And don't you think, go ahead.
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Finish I, I, I think it's just an, an update of refresh to the
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entryway. I don't think it's an entire
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review of, you know, the feeling of the park.
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I mean, that's, that's a very cool feel Hollywood has.
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Hollywood has a vibe. There's nothing like in the
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world and and wouldn't you say this, I've never thought about
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this until we're going down this this road.
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The star of the park is Hollywood Blvd. inside.
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I mean, Hollywood. Did they say that right?
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Hollywood, Hollywood and Sunset, all the stars of the park.
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Yeah. When you when you when you say
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Hollywood studios to me, my brain immediately identifies
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with that first. Forget about Indiana Jones,
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forget about Galaxy's Edge, mania, Tower of Terror, all of
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that. My first initial quick thought
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is the music and and and those streets.
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Yeah. That defines Hollywood studios
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to me. Yeah, Yeah, I think you're
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right. I always love because typically
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you start in Hollywood studios, like I'm even thinking about
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like going live there the last time I was there or last two
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times starting on Hollywood Blvd. walking through the parks,
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maybe going through Toy Story Land, doing Galaxy's Edge so you
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can go to Rise. I go and do the Frozen show,
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spend all that time there, and then you get to Sunset Blvd. and
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maybe you're going to do rock and roller Coaster or villains
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or Tower of Terror and you have all the shops there.
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Like it's just, it's like an, it's like a bonus, right?
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Because you've come in, you've done Hollywood Studios, you walk
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to the back of the park and then you still have Sunset Blvd. to
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do so. It's like 2 main streets.
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Yeah, it's like 2 main streets. Yeah, exactly.
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Really. Yeah.
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And especially because you have Hollywood Blvd. has the Chinese
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Theatre at the end of it, and then you have Sunset Blvd. who's
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got Hollywood Tower, you know, at the end of it.
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So. I've never thought of it like
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that. That's true.
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It's. Hollywood's vibe.
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So I think I don't think they're going to change the whole thing,
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but I'll tell you what I am of what we know is coming this
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year. I think, well, Big Thunder as a
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refresh, yes, but I think the magic of Disney animation is
26:44
going to be a sleeper. I really do.
26:48
I think that what they're putting over there gives a lot
26:52
of us reason to go there. You know, the villain show.
26:58
I look at that and, and I think how many streamers do I see go
27:02
to the villain show compared to how many went to Lightning
27:07
McQueen Racing Academy? I mean, how many times on this
27:13
on Saturday were you going to Racing Academy compared to how
27:17
many times you go to Villains? Oh, in comparison, well, I'm
27:23
going to say this. I mean, I, I this is what I
27:25
believe. I believe that, I mean, it's,
27:29
it's been out longer, but I would say on average that we
27:33
have seen Lightning McQueen more than villains.
27:36
Is that what you expected me to say?
27:38
Well, yeah. And, and it's easy to go to and
27:41
it, it was, it's never, I got to see Lightning McQueen today.
27:45
It's that was more of a filler for us.
27:47
Right. Love the show, but when you've
27:51
seen it a few times, you know, it's it's more of OK, the park
27:55
is pretty busy right now. Hey, let's go see Lightning
27:57
McQueen and then we'll go do such and such after this.
28:01
And to be honest, and this is not to diminish the show 'cause
28:07
I like villains too and, and Ariel, which are the two newer
28:11
shows over there at Hollywood, but they are very low on my list
28:15
of priority of things. I wanted to, to me at this
28:18
point, those are more like, OK, we, we got to kill some time,
28:22
let's go do this with this. Or occasionally, hey, we haven't
28:25
done villains in a while, let's go do villains.
28:29
But I forget about it, to be honest.
28:30
I mean, I've, I forget about it half the time I'm there that it
28:34
that it even exists. Just like I forget.
28:36
I forget that we have epic in Orlando because it's dead to me.
28:40
It's dead to me until they offer annual castes.
28:45
I, I think that I think the Disney, the, the magic of Disney
28:51
animation is, is going to give life to that whole area there
28:58
way more than it been launched. They did way more than the
29:02
Disney Junior dance show. Did you know?
29:08
And then you also have Little Mermaid, which is kind of there.
29:14
I mean, they're allowing you to, to get into it now and go around
29:18
the, the scrim walls that are there, but that's going to be
29:21
attached to it as well. I think it, I think it's going
29:23
to be really, really good to see that part open.
29:28
And I think of what we're getting in 2026.
29:31
I think that's what I'm most excited for because it's going
29:33
to give life to an entire section of a park that we hadn't
29:37
seen before. Definitely a dead area.
29:42
It's been a dead area for a long time, Yeah.
29:44
So yeah, I, I don't know if it's going to be as big as you think.
29:51
I think it's going to be middle of the road.
29:53
And I hope you're right more than I am.
29:55
I just, it's a little bit of the unknown kind of what they've
29:58
explained. I'm like, OK, is this kind of
30:02
something, you know, like villains or or mermaid where it
30:09
it opens, you go do it. And then after doing it maybe a
30:13
couple of times, is it a little bit more, not quite, but is it a
30:18
little bit more on the level of one man's dream or something,
30:22
you know, amazing in there, but OK, I've done that multiple
30:26
times over the years. You know, I might go in it once
30:30
every 10 visits. Yeah, I don't I don't think it's
30:34
going to be on the level of one man's dream again.
30:39
I get the idea of one man's dream, both the movie and the
30:43
the walkthrough experience there totally.
30:46
But I think this is I from what I've read, this is really
30:51
different than anything that we've had in a park.
30:55
So I, I think that that really will make the difference.
31:00
And while villains and mermaid, you don't have that initial rush
31:05
that we had, you know, that first day where you had hours
31:08
and hours of people waiting because obviously it's new.
31:13
The, the shows are still pretty busy.
31:16
Like when I went to see villains the last time, I was on the
31:20
extreme end on the right, right hand side.
31:23
So they are still staying pretty, pretty full.
31:27
So, so that's good because again, I think we need more
31:33
attractions. I know people looking for rides,
31:36
but I think we need more attractions in the park.
31:40
And not every attraction has to be an E ticket because if you
31:44
have a park full of E tickets, you're in trouble.
31:48
You're in trouble. That is true.
31:49
That is true. You know, you rope drop and
31:51
you're going to be waiting all day for for rides.
31:54
So, yeah, so so I think that that's going to be great for for
32:05
Hollywood Studios. The other thing in Hollywood
32:06
Studios, March 2nd, would you lose Rock and Roller Coaster
32:11
starring Aerosmith and then it opens up with Rock and Roller
32:17
Coaster starring The Muppets. We know that this is going to be
32:21
a shorter refresh, right? This is, it's supposed to close
32:28
in March and supposed to open in the summer.
32:31
So you know, that could be 5 months, let's even say six
32:35
months. So you know, that's not a full
32:39
teardown of the of the ride. It's essentially just a re
32:48
retelling of the story, right? So they're going to refresh it.
32:52
I don't know how many of the sets inside they're going to
32:55
change, you know? I mean, you don't really have
32:59
to. You don't have to.
33:01
I don't think that there's anything in there that shouts
33:05
Aerosmith. I think it's more of the highway
33:08
and all that. That's a great point.
33:10
Maybe they had some rainbow stuff in there.
33:13
You know, that kind of goes along with the artwork.
33:16
Psychedelic, Maybe look at, make it look a little more
33:18
psychedelic. But I hope they don't take the
33:23
easy way out like that. You know, you've done all this
33:26
theming and they won't I'll predict that you're not going to
33:30
ride through that and you're not going to.
33:32
I bet nothing looks completely familiar.
33:35
The street signs may still be the same.
33:36
Maybe they change the name of the signs, but I think you'll
33:39
see more color in there and things like that.
33:41
I I, I don't think it'll be super recognizable because I
33:45
don't think Disney would do that.
33:46
I don't think they even though they do reskins of things.
33:48
I think that, you know, I think it'll look, it'll look better.
33:52
I think it could be an upgrade in there.
33:54
I don't know what else they would do, but they're the
33:55
imagineers. So they'll figure that part out
34:00
and it's fast, right? It's a it's a, it's a coaster.
34:02
So how much can you really see anyway?
34:04
But they'll put a lot of great work.
34:06
You know, the the star of that show, that attraction is, is
34:10
going to be the pre show. And then of course, the launch,
34:14
right? Because listen, we're no theme
34:17
park giant, but us here at living in Diz, we like to
34:20
evaluate the coasters we have ridden.
34:23
And if you break it down, I love Tron more and more and Jacob
34:27
just loves it more and I share that love with him for it.
34:30
And we just have so much fun on it.
34:32
But if when you break coasters down for Tron, if you're looking
34:36
track, it's not it's it's doesn't, it's not.
34:41
There's no wow factor besides the vehicle because you're
34:44
sitting in it like a like a like a cycle.
34:46
The launch, awesome, the curve as you go under hood, great.
34:50
After that, nothing special. And when you look at I say that
34:55
because it's one to build up to the upcoming Rock and roller
35:00
coaster Muppets attraction. There's nothing special about
35:05
that track. After the launch, there really
35:07
isn't. So, well, you do have the
35:10
inversion, yeah, I think. Once that, once that's done,
35:16
once that's done, you kind of just cruise in a little bit
35:18
enjoying the music. And the inversion's kind of
35:21
right after the. Launch so it's like boom, boom.
35:24
So after that it's like, OK, now we're just kind of riding now
35:28
we're just kind of riding along. But don't don't don't get it
35:32
twisted. I love I love those I love those
35:34
attractions. Just if we break down the track
35:37
by by thrills and uniqueness, not not so much.
35:41
Now you go over to Velocicoaster.
35:42
That thing's unbelievable. Can't say enough about it.
35:44
So many unique things to me. And I think the park Giant put
35:48
that in his like top three, top four or something like that of
35:51
all time. So yeah, what else do we have
35:54
coming? So so that's really what you
35:58
have in in Hollywood studios, although you do have we, we
36:02
might as well talk about this, the new update to Smugglers Run
36:07
coming in May when the Mandalorian comes out in the
36:12
movie theater. So you're going to be able to
36:16
choose where you go. The engineer is going to play
36:19
more of a role and you're going to have new missions, including
36:24
Mandalorian and and grow group. So what does that do for
36:28
Smugglers? Run for you, do you think?
36:32
It does a lot for me. I'm very excited about it.
36:35
Again, I like change and I think that it is going to well, it's
36:41
going to be a new experience. So, you know, maybe they take,
36:45
maybe they've learned some things, how to do some things
36:48
differently. I just think it's going to be
36:51
more fun. And like we talked about in past
36:53
podcasts, now you're going to involve the engineer more who
36:56
gets to choose where you you go. So that's that's cool to involve
37:01
them more. And maybe that's something
37:02
Disney learned, right? Like, hey, you know, we, we
37:05
really should find some reason to give the engineer more to do
37:11
because again, I've said this before, I rode that attraction
37:16
on opening day and my first thoughts after the first time
37:21
was disappointing. And I, I say that in the blog
37:24
that I was, it was underwhelming for me because I got stuck back
37:27
there engineering and I was like, this is I didn't get to do
37:33
much right. So I stuck it out and I went
37:37
back and, and I got to be the pilot.
37:40
And in that same vlog, it's night and day between my
37:42
reviews, how much I loved it. You know, in the early reviews
37:46
on that with comparisons of Star Tours, Star Tours, you're a
37:49
passenger, you have no control of anything.
37:51
Where as a pilot you have a little bit more control in what
37:54
happens. So loved it then, loved it now,
37:58
love it now. And I'm excited to see something
38:00
new, you know, incorporate Mando and all that.
38:02
I'm very excited about it. I think you're going to see
38:08
probably easy to call it now, right?
38:09
But I think you're going to see opening day smugglers run types
38:14
of lines for a few weeks which they that stretched, that
38:22
stretched, that stretched quite far.
38:24
It stretched past Olga's, followed it down past where you
38:29
where you get the milk and wrap past that well past that.
38:35
So I think you're going to get some really long wait times for
38:39
smugglers run coming up for sure.
38:42
So you had virtual queue for Ryze but that was only standby?
38:47
Or did you have virtual queue? Yeah, I don't think there was
38:50
ever a virtual queue for smugglers.
38:52
Got it. Got it.
38:53
OK. But to be honest, I don't think
38:56
virtual queues existed yet. So strugglers was before Ryze?
39:04
Yes, by a long, by a long shot. Wasn't it like another, wasn't
39:09
it like give or take a year or something before Rise opened?
39:13
So you just had smugglers run for an attraction in there,
39:17
which probably, Yeah, that, yeah.
39:21
Rise will still take a little edge off it, but that's the
39:22
going to be the new thing, the new shiny toy.
39:24
Everybody's going to want to be on it.
39:26
It's. Oh yeah.
39:27
You're looking at, you know, 170, you know, minute wait
39:30
times. So I hope that they bring back a
39:32
virtual queue for that. I hope they do.
39:36
And you know, just just a side note, Jacob and I were talking
39:41
about Guardians the other day. Guardians is so hard to get on
39:45
since they took the virtual queue away.
39:47
So be careful what you ask for because I would take that
39:50
virtual cue back because we went on every time we went and now I
39:57
haven't gone on guardians in months and months and months
40:00
because at least on stream I'm not willing to wait, you know
40:04
ninety 100 minutes for that. So I say bring them back, but
40:11
they should bring some back for sure.
40:12
Now. You know it depends on the
40:14
attraction, right? Because Tiana's they took it
40:15
away. And I get on Tiana's whenever I
40:17
want to. If you have to wait till the end
40:20
of the night, you wait till the end of the night or right after
40:22
Starlight, you know it's pretty much a guarantee.
40:26
So let me ask you this about about Smuggler's Run.
40:31
You have the single rider current day, you know if you're
40:37
single rider, your engineer, do you think that changes any with
40:43
the new with the new layout? How many times have you watched
40:47
me on single rider and I have not been engineer?
40:49
You can ask people. No purple pleasure Pro tip
40:53
221658-9. You can just because you're a
40:58
single rider, you can still ask if you can be something other
41:02
than engineer because I've done it.
41:04
Yeah. And sometimes you just luck out
41:07
where you don't know how that works out.
41:09
But, you know, you, you might get some people who don't want
41:12
to be the the pilot and by default you get to be the pilot,
41:16
yes. So you know there's a chance.
41:22
But I just, I just wonder if to me right now, I think maybe that
41:28
changes it and maybe Gunner becomes the third, you know?
41:35
That's you thinking outside the box.
41:37
Have a little bit more to do. So I think now gunner becomes
41:42
the third, the third seed and people want to sit engineer.
41:45
Well, pilot first, obviously, then engineer and then gunner,
41:49
but. Good call.
41:52
Yeah, I like that. So yeah, I think that Hollywood
41:56
is going to see some life on that side of the park.
42:00
You're going to see some life on on the other side with the new
42:05
courtyard coming up. So I'm excited for for that
42:10
animal Kingdom, we said goodbye to Dino Dinosaur.
42:13
You did that. You guys did your last ride on
42:17
Saturday. I know you're an indie fan, so
42:24
are you excited for the new ride?
42:28
I was super excited for the announcement and then I'm kind
42:33
of the type where I just kind of sit and bide my time like I let
42:36
the excitement come down and as we approach and then the day of
42:42
I'll just be through the roof. But I was re excited again after
42:48
Jacob rode Indy in Tokyo because his text to me after that was
42:54
like, dad, if they do Indy anything like they do, they did
42:59
in Tokyo in Animal Kingdom. He, he said, I, I am just so
43:04
pumped for it. So I got to imagine, you know, I
43:10
don't think Disney's going to put something lesser in another
43:13
park where they've experimented or established something great
43:19
in another park. I don't think they're going to
43:20
put a lesser experience in there.
43:22
So I would expect this one to be on par with Tokyo or a little
43:26
better. So I'm very excited for it.
43:29
I'm very excited for the Indy ride for sure.
43:32
I do hope, and I don't think it's going to happen, but I do
43:34
hope that they do keep the ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise.
43:39
But I don't, I don't think they're going to.
43:43
Yeah, I don't see how that would fit at all.
43:45
Yeah, but they'll be something. They'll they'll leave something.
43:50
I well, I heard today that there is a oh gosh, where is it?
43:55
And he's an archaeologist, so why can't you have a dinosaur
43:57
bone hanging around or something?
43:59
I'm with you. I'm with you.
44:02
Maybe even in the queue, you know, maybe there's a couple
44:04
things that he found in the area.
44:07
I think, I think it's in Tower of Terror.
44:10
I think in Tower of Terror there are props from in the Boiler
44:15
Room. There are props from the Great
44:18
Movie Ride. Really.
44:21
Yeah, yeah, They're using, I think where the where the water,
44:25
the new water effect happens now where it's dripping down on on
44:29
you inside the boiler room. It drips into cans and the cans
44:34
are from the Great Movie Ride. Really.
44:39
I didn't know there was any water effect where water dripped
44:41
on you. When you walk into the boiler
44:45
room. So check that out and the phone
44:47
is ringing again. I don't, I don't even think I
44:50
knew that the phone rang, but there used to be a phone in the
44:53
lobby and it used to ring and the the cast members would pick
44:56
it up and pretend that they're talking to guests that so that
45:00
phone and the ringing is back, but not with the cast members.
45:04
It's just off to the to the. Front.
45:05
Oh, cool. OK, I'll have to pay attention
45:08
to that. Yeah, yeah.
45:10
So check that out. So yeah, there's, you know,
45:11
little things freshen up, you know, these, these current rods.
45:16
So over in Magic, I did single rider space Mountain.
45:25
They are testing it. They tested it the other day
45:28
when the park closed at 4:30 for the cast member event.
45:32
So they tested it that morning. I do hear that the that it's
45:37
going well. You know, it's not, people
45:40
aren't flooding the single rider option for that ride.
45:44
So that's good. Essentially, you just walk
45:46
through the lightning lane. When you get to the to the top,
45:51
you tell them you're single rider.
45:52
They put you in the single rider line.
45:56
They created a separate, separate single rider line.
45:59
And I mean, listen, it's space mountain, it's dark.
46:04
You're not sitting next to whoever you went with anyway.
46:08
So I think single rider is a good option for that ride.
46:13
Yeah, good point, Good point. They are testing it.
46:15
Hopefully that is something that comes comes to Magic.
46:20
That would be the only single rider line in Magic.
46:24
There's no other. Single.
46:24
How about that? How about that?
46:28
The other thing big thing at Magic that that that we know is
46:32
coming this year is Big Thunder Mountain.
46:35
Cannot say enough about this. I'm very excited about Big
46:41
Thunder coming back. I don't even need the new
46:43
effects. I'll take them, but I don't even
46:45
need the new effects. I just want Big Thunder back.
46:48
So very excited about that. And I I know, I know.
46:51
You'll be showing that as soon as it's possible.
46:54
Yes, we'll be showing that as soon as possible with cast
47:00
member preview and we'll try to be the the first ones to stream
47:04
it live if we can as we were the first ones to do test track, so
47:11
love that. Animal, Let's go back to animal.
47:15
So we said, we know we said goodbye to to dinosaur this
47:20
year. We can see the work happening
47:24
for the new Encanto ride. And people are still saying, and
47:32
when I say people, I don't, I mean, like, you know, people in
47:35
our circle are saying that Tropical Americas opens in 2027.
47:45
I, you know, I heard that buzz around there and I'm like, OK,
47:48
yeah, right. People are still saying it.
47:51
And man, I'm going to tell you what, if they get all of
47:54
Tropical America's done in 2027, there's there's nothing that
48:00
they can't do before 20-30. You know, I think in our minds,
48:04
we're all set with Tron took five years.
48:08
So and and that was one ride. So everything is going to have
48:12
this huge delay if they can get Tropic and think about it now
48:17
that whole area of Dinosaur Land or Dino Dino Land USA is all cut
48:20
off now. So they've got free rein back
48:23
there to move about as they need to without disturbing any
48:28
guests. If they get that pulled off,
48:30
that's that's going to be amazing.
48:33
Think about the magnitude of that.
48:34
What you just said, like the whole area of an entire land is
48:40
being overhauled. That's like saying, sorry,
48:43
folks, Adventure Lands closed. We're revamping everything.
48:47
That is really, really crazy. Yeah.
48:51
But and like you said, right, Tron was a different time.
48:54
You know, we went through COVID and all this other stuff and
48:57
financial issues. I think if Tron was announced
49:01
and started today, it would it would be done within the year,
49:04
right? Year, little over year, I think
49:07
it'd be a lot quicker. So I.
49:11
I can, I mean, you think about, you know, Tianas and Big
49:16
Thunder, which took a year and a half.
49:21
They're talking about an entire land being done in just a little
49:25
bit more than that. Because I'm going to assume when
49:29
they say 2027, I'm going to say December 30th.
49:33
That's when we're going to have, you know, the tropical America
49:37
is open. So let's say it's 2 two years.
49:38
But here's what they did though, and they did the same thing with
49:41
rock and roller coaster, Rock and roller, rock and roller
49:45
coaster. They closed the pre show.
49:47
Why did they do that? There's work happening behind
49:51
those gates, right behind the the the the roll down gate, the
49:56
wall, whatever you want to call it.
49:57
They're working on the pre show now so that when the ride closes
50:01
on March 2nd, maybe that's just about done.
50:05
And now they can focus everything on the inside of the
50:09
ride, the queue inside the ride, and then the building on the
50:12
outside of the ride. And they better give me that
50:15
coat, the guitar that they're showing on the outside in the
50:19
artist rendering. I want that thing lit up the way
50:22
they show it. And I, I think we're getting it.
50:25
I really do. So I think the same thing
50:29
happened in Dinoland because they did those phase closures,
50:34
you know, they closed this part and they closed a little bit
50:37
more and now finally you have the whole thing closed.
50:40
Well, that gave them all that time to start working on
50:42
Encanto. And that thing is just about
50:44
framed already. That is a huge building.
50:49
The carousel is already, they're working.
50:51
The foundation's already done for the carousel.
50:53
So there's a lot of work that's already gone into it.
50:57
And again, now the whole thing's closed off.
51:00
You don't have to put up, you know, any other scrim walls.
51:03
It's all there. And I think we're, I think we're
51:05
going to be in good shape, folks.
51:06
I'm, I'm very excited for 2026 and beyond.
51:13
There was one other thing that I meant to call out.
51:18
Oh, Buzz Lightyear. Buzz Lightyear.
51:21
Over in Magic. So we noticed the other night
51:26
that the scrim walls have become much bigger and they have now
51:33
walled off the entire outside queue of Buzz Lightyear.
51:38
So Jacob and I were like, whoa, OK, what are we doing here?
51:43
So it, it seems to me like we'll be getting some new signs and
51:48
things like that. Retheme a little little bit of A
51:51
Retheme A. Little bit of a retheme.
51:54
I think that ride is going to be great.
51:57
And the other refresh is Frozen Ever After over at Epcot, where
52:03
we're getting the new 3D projections for Anna and Elsa.
52:10
And again, sometimes it's just a little, you know, refresh goes a
52:14
long way. So that you don't.
52:16
Feel that the ride is second rate as as Corey mentioned
52:19
earlier, you get these new rides, right?
52:23
You have the new Frozen Land and that's where we saw the the new
52:29
Anna and Elsa animations and you put them up against what we have
52:33
over here in Epcot. And it's like, hey, we deserve
52:36
better. We deserve better and now we're
52:40
getting better. So I think it's the same thing
52:42
same thing like Big Thunder, you know, you had the you had the
52:46
effects over in Disneyland. Now you're going to get them at
52:49
Disney World. So I think I think we're in for
52:52
a good year. I really do.
52:55
You know, any change is good and fun.
52:58
Any kind of refresh is always pretty cool.
53:01
They haven't announced Carousel of Progress, do you?
53:08
Think. That's going to be maybe right
53:12
after Buzz because how much do you want to take?
53:16
How much do you want to close in Tomorrowland you know at one
53:22
time? That's a great point.
53:24
That's a great point. You probably don't want to close
53:26
two items there. So yeah, I'd I'd roll with that.
53:29
When when Buzz opens, they'll start on shortly on Carousel of
53:35
Progress after that. Yeah.
53:37
And, and, and it shouldn't take too long.
53:39
I don't think they've announced how long they think it'll take,
53:41
right? But they haven't.
53:43
Shouldn't take too long. I mean, I'm sure the wall
53:47
animatronic is good to go or close to good to go.
53:50
All you have to do is insert him and build your build your new
53:53
stage and maybe you're good to go.
53:58
Yeah, yeah, I think, I think we're going to be, I think we're
54:02
going to be very surprised with that.
54:05
Let's also talk about movies that are coming up for 2026 for
54:12
Disney. So we have Hoppers, which is the
54:15
new Pixar original. It's about a young animal lover
54:19
whose consciousness gets transferred into a robotic
54:22
Beaver that comes out March 6th. You have Toy Story 5.
54:29
It's it's Avatar. Hoppers is Avatar, by the way.
54:34
Oh my goodness. 100% it's Avatar Pixar version.
54:41
Oh man, it's all you're going to make me go back and watch the
54:44
movie and. It's all about the environment
54:47
and the animals fighting back. Yeah, how can we?
54:50
How can we stop the humans from taking our?
54:52
Land, yeah. Yeah, and they literally say it
54:56
in the trailer. They literally say it in the
54:57
trailer. They're like, it's this is
54:58
Avatar. Yeah.
55:01
It looks, it looks fun. It looks very fun.
55:03
So yeah, yeah. I kind of kind of can't wait for
55:08
that one. You also have Toy Story 5
55:10
that'll come out June 19th. That's going to go right along
55:14
with Zootopia 2 and Inside Out two.
55:18
I I think that's probably another billion dollar movie
55:22
maker right there. The trailer, the teaser dropped
55:26
even just based on that. I, I will, you know, we always
55:30
here at Living Ind is Jacob and I always pre we predict what we
55:35
think will rate a film and we go, we see one film a week at
55:38
least. I will give Toy Story 5A solid
55:45
82% approval rating as an expectation.
55:49
That's my expectation going into that one.
55:53
They're a little behind the times.
55:55
I do hope that the timeline isn't now because it's all about
56:00
an electronic handheld devices for children and the toys are
56:05
worried that they won't get played with anymore because now
56:10
Froggy comes in with a screen or whatever it is, a touch screen
56:13
for the kid to play with. That was about the time when
56:17
Jill was 3 or 4, so be interesting to see.
56:21
Well, Sir, as the dad of 86, almost 767 year old, I can tell
56:27
you that stuff happens now. Oh, OK, You know, she's she.
56:34
Well, today she was with me 'cause she was off.
56:36
And so it was like, you know, I had to give her her screen so
56:41
that she could be at my appointments and not, you know,
56:46
be bored. I will say, though, if she has a
56:50
good balance, like there's plenty of times when she'll have
56:53
her dolls and she takes them and sets them all up in the living
56:57
room. All the dolls.
56:58
I can't even. We'll have to count them one
57:00
day. And they'll be, she'll sit them
57:04
up on the sofas and they will be watching her perform or dance or
57:10
create a nice or something like that Nice.
57:13
She does have a, a pretty good balance there.
57:16
But there are times where it's like OK screen, screen time is
57:20
done. I wanted to point out that VH
57:22
Gilmore said that he thinks that they're putting a shade
57:25
structure up in the buzz queue, which would be nice.
57:29
Shade is good. How I I can't remember because
57:34
Buzz is not a ride that I would wait for.
57:38
I know, I know, I feel like half of it is already undercover, but
57:42
I could be wrong. But did you?
57:45
Have and now I need to look at it when I'm there tomorrow.
57:47
Were there, were there a lot of times when they were outside?
57:51
I mean now with the new ride, obviously.
57:53
Oh yeah, yeah. Buzz.
57:55
Buzz is always outside. OK, Buzz is always outside.
57:59
And yeah, hopefully BH is right that would, that would be good.
58:03
That would be good. So you have the live action
58:07
Moana, which is the summer, which is a live action version
58:14
of the original movie. It's going to be what I'm going
58:21
to see. Yeah.
58:23
I'm not going to leave it out. I don't, I don't have as high
58:26
expectations for that as I do for Toy Story 5, but it's.
58:34
Moana, OK. I got like a 55 or percent
58:42
expectation on that one, so we'll have to see.
58:45
I might even let you go see it first.
58:49
It it's. I the the problem I have with
58:51
this one is when I'm watching the trailer and you all can
58:55
comment if you're listening later or say something to chat.
59:00
I don't know if I'm watching just another iteration of the
59:03
animated Moana or live action. It's hard to tell sometimes.
59:09
So it's almost like the CGI wasn't good enough to make you
59:14
believe it's real, or it's just Pixar or Disney.
59:20
Watch closely when you see the trailer.
59:22
I can't, yeah. It.
59:25
Yeah. And then you have Mando and as
59:31
we talked about with Smugglers Run, that comes out May 22nd.
59:35
I'm assuming you guys will be hitting the theater soon after
59:38
it opens for that? Which one?
59:41
I was reading chat, sorry. Mando.
59:44
Oh listen, that is going to be a four DX experience.
59:50
Nice. That is going to be 4.
59:51
DX drove me all over the place. Yeah, eat my popcorn before the
59:55
movie starts because it'll be everywhere.
59:58
During. Film.
59:59
Oh yes. Where does that fall in the
1:00:02
timeline with with the the the TV show, do you know?
1:00:10
Oh, well, I mean, I guess you could ask.
1:00:14
I'd have to really look to be sure, but I feel like when I
1:00:16
looked at this a few months ago, Mando takes place like after
1:00:20
Return of the Jedi. That whole that whole time frame
1:00:25
I think is after Return of the Jedi.
1:00:28
And where does the movie fall in?
1:00:31
With the show, yeah. Oh, I think it's a continuation
1:00:36
after after the final, you know, Mando show.
1:00:40
OK, All right. Yeah.
1:00:44
For Marvel you have Spider Man brand new Day July 31st and you
1:00:50
have Avengers Doomsday, it says early May.
1:00:59
Next year, yeah, all four DX movies for me.
1:01:07
You also have Hex coming out later this year towards the end.
1:01:14
And then for TV you have or Disney Channel and Disney Plus
1:01:17
you have Camp Rock, 3 Descendants, Wicked Wonderland.
1:01:21
So obviously that's going to be Christmas.
1:01:25
And did they finally finish filming the Christmas movie?
1:01:30
Speaking of Christmas. No, still filming.
1:01:33
No, because I keep getting casting, casting call requests
1:01:38
for that, for that project. I just got some last week.
1:01:42
So unless they wrapped within the last few days, I was still
1:01:45
getting possible calls to go do that.
1:01:49
They were running. They were running out of fresh
1:01:51
faces. Like the emails started to say,
1:01:53
can we get some fresh faces here?
1:01:56
Yeah, I'm a little busy at work. The.
1:01:58
Same people just walking. Back.
1:01:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. I was interested a couple weeks
1:02:04
ago because they did have some closed sets for office scenes.
1:02:09
I was like, oh, I want to do that.
1:02:11
But then I just got busy at work and I just said I forget it, but
1:02:15
that would have been cool. Like maybe walking by with
1:02:17
papers, with papers, or you put some papers on their desk while
1:02:19
they're having a discussion. You're like, oh, there I am.
1:02:22
You know that kind of fun. So for this year, what what has
1:02:29
you most excited? If we take movies and
1:02:36
attractions into account, I think attractions will always
1:02:39
will always be above the films. But this year, well, we got rock
1:02:46
and roller coaster. We got the animation courtyard,
1:02:49
right. I'm going to go animation
1:02:52
Courtyard all right. Very cool.
1:02:56
Yeah, I'm going to say Big Thunder, OK.
1:03:03
But I think the animation courtyard is right up there.
1:03:05
I think that's going to be something that the whole family
1:03:07
can do. Not that we don't all do Big
1:03:09
Thunder, but I think it's something that we'll get some
1:03:12
good experience out of. So yeah, Yeah, that's it for
1:03:15
that. Very good.
1:03:17
So very cool. Thank you all for being here.
1:03:21
If you watched on either channels, Living Days or Park
1:03:24
grows, whether you watched horizontal or vertical, we
1:03:28
appreciate it. I will also mention that last
1:03:35
this past Saturday or the post show, I pulled a video of Iron
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Rattler and I did not give credit that I should have
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So I want to apologize for that. That's not something that I set
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out to do, but that creator, you know, acts that we give them
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I now go back and call out splash one.
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It was their video that we used for the post show.
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Go and check out their stuff. They've got some really good,
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So just wanted to acknowledge them for allowing us to use
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So I know, I know when I got that message, you know, I, I
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knew it was some kind of oversight and all that.
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So yeah, definitely here, we never want to use anyone's
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So yeah. Yeah, so go check them out
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folks. So we've got a lot of good stuff
1:05:17
coming up. We're I'm already starting to
1:05:20
put stuff together for the Flower and Garden show.
1:05:23
We're going to talk Disneyland towards the end of the month.
1:05:27
We'll have Sierra from Cruise and Theme Park guide coming on
1:05:30
the show because she went to Disneyland for her first time
1:05:34
ever and so she's going to tell us all about that.
1:05:37
And then she went on a cruise right after going to Disneyland,
1:05:39
so we'll be talking about that as well.
1:05:42
So putting a lot of good, good shows together for all of you
1:05:45
and we are going to head over to our zoom call for the members
1:05:52
sky liner and above and then those that won the gifted
1:05:57
invites from Saturday. We will see you all over there.
1:06:02
The rest of you I am when this show ends, it's going to take
1:06:06
you to Epic Universe with a theme park giant who is
1:06:11
streaming over there in Epic Universe.
1:06:12
So. It's oh, fun.
1:06:14
Epic at night, so very cool. Awesome.
1:06:18
Don't get to see epic often because not a lot of people do
1:06:22
it because right can't really do much.
1:06:25
No thanks, Universal. Can't really.
1:06:28
Stream Nothing Speaking of Universal, we will be live one
1:06:32
of these upcoming Saturdays. Saturdays is to bring you all
1:06:37
Mardi Gras. It's going to be so much fun.
1:06:40
And it is probably it's, it is definitely the, the time that
1:06:47
the channel goes a little more unhinged, right?
1:06:50
There's lots of sparkles, lots of skin, lots of what whatever
1:06:56
it's, it's, it's almost adult adulty, right?
1:07:00
It's, it's adult. It's an adultee kind of parade,
1:07:03
but so much fun and we'll try some foods.
1:07:07
The Living in Biz way, do some food reviews over there, let you
1:07:11
all enjoy the Mardi Gras parade. We were always catching beads.
1:07:15
We always ask you all in chat, how many beads do you think
1:07:18
we'll get? Sometimes the gimbal catches
1:07:21
some beads. It's a lot of fun.
1:07:23
It's a lot of fun. So we're looking forward to
1:07:24
that. We'll do it more than once and
1:07:28
definitely one time in February. So we'll plan that out and it
1:07:30
could possibly be within the next two to three weeks that
1:07:33
were there on a Saturdays and get some of that done.
1:07:36
So always look forward to that every year.
1:07:39
And tomorrow we'll be live at Magic Kingdom Park closes again
1:07:43
at 9. Yay.
1:07:45
So, you know, maybe we'll just kill some time, a little bit of
1:07:49
time on on. Well, you know what, to be
1:07:53
honest, I really like the way it worked out for me to walk over
1:07:57
to the Contemporary and just get on over there or just walk the
1:08:02
other way. So I don't know.
1:08:03
We'll see. We'll see what I decide to do.
1:08:05
Because the crowds have just been unbelievable in a bad way.
1:08:10
When they're closing that early, everyone's leaving at the same
1:08:13
time. And it rather than waiting all
1:08:17
that, I might rather just walk it, you know.
1:08:20
So we'll see. We'll see what we figure out for
1:08:22
sure. So yeah, so ready to wrap it up.
1:08:30
Yes. So yeah, those of you will see
1:08:33
you on the Zoom call and the rest of you go hang out at Epic
1:08:37
Universe and then we will see you tomorrow as Corey said at
1:08:42
Magic. Sounds great everyone.
1:08:46
And on Saturdays we will. We may start a little later than
1:08:50
usual. It might go into the 4:00 hour,
1:08:52
but I'm going to try to still start in three o'clock hour.
1:08:54
We have an early engagement before we head over to the park,
1:08:58
so I guess for now we're just a couple of Bros talking Disney.
1:09:03
Thanks for joining us everyone. Good night.
1:09:07
Good night.